Newsletter 198 – June 2015

NFLA Media release – for immediate release, 13‘” April 2015. The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) is today concerned to read further serious safety issues with the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) being built at the Flamanville site in France. It calls on the UK nuclear regulator and Areva-EDF to understand these design concerns in reference…

In January we reported that the Head of the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) had publicly agreed in November 2014 with his European counterparts that emergency preparedness for nuclear accidents ought to be based upon a severe accident, however unlikely. All our emergency planning (EP) was based only upon a reasonably foreseeable accident, so…

At a well attended meeting, the ofﬁcers were re-elected for 2615/16 unanimously. It was resolved to publicise more widely our efforts to shut down Sizewell B and to increase the Campaign’s membership, especially among the young.

‘Last month, the Saudi oil minister said something quite remarkable for a country dependent on black gold. “We recognize that eventually…we are not going to need fossil fuels. I don’t know when — in 2040, 2050, or thereafter.” In it’s place will come the dawn of renewables, which could be only 25 years away.’ From…

‘Scottish Power Renewables, the company behind the East Anglia One offshore wind farm project, has named Siemens as its preferred supplier of turbines. It is thought to be the biggest deal ever concluded for a consented project in the UK’s wind energy sector, involving up to 102 7megawatt turbines, able to power around 500,000…

‘Japan has cleared the way for a resumption of nuclear power, four years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. Regulators said that Kyushu Electric Power’s two- reactor nuclear plant at Sendai in southwest Japan had cleared safety hurdles introduced after the Fukushima disaster.’ From…